Quantified EEG activity in adolescent attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
The aim of this study was to explore elements of the maturational and cortical hypoarousal models in adolescent ADHD, by examining EEG activity in a rest eyes open condition, in 26 adolescent unmedicated ADHD males and 26 age and sex matched normal controls. ADHD adolescents were found to have increased anterior EEG absolute theta activity and reduced posterior relative beta activity compared with controls. These results lend some support to the continuation of a maturational lag and reduced cortical arousal in adolescent ADHD. These measures need to be further explored using concomitant EEG with electrodermal measures of arousal.
Lazzaro
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I
Cognitive Neuroscience Unit, Westmead Hospital, N.S.W., Australia.
Gordon
E
E
Whitmont
S
S
Plahn
M
M
Li
W
W
Clarke
S
S
Dosen
A
A
Meares
R
R
D000293:Adolescent; D001289:Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity / Q000503:physiopathology*; D002648:Child; D004569:Electroencephalography; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male